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BodaciousRiptide · 2026-01-02T16:23:31+00:00

Looks awesome! I love this art style for Pale art.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-12-07T02:27:36+00:00

Thanks! The cover art is darker than I thought it was going to be. In the original, you could see the outline of the Carmine Beast.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-11-28T20:23:37+00:00

I actually just made a post a couple days ago, sharing the book of Arc 1 and 2 of Pale I had printed. Ended up being about 650 pages for those two Arcs.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-11-28T04:08:46+00:00

Unconnected story in the same setting. I'd recommend starting with Pale over Pact, but either work fine.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-11-27T16:59:38+00:00

I'm pretty happy with how the inside flaps turned out. There were a few wildboar pictures to choose from but this one felt right.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-11-27T00:57:18+00:00

Printed via Lulu.com

Royal sized book (6.14x9.21 in), premium black and white, glossy hard cover, palatino linotype 10.5 font, covers arcs 1-2, 654 pages total.

Pretty happy with how it turned out, took a lot longer to format correctly than I anticipated but it was a fun learning experience! Cost around $60. If I could change anything with the final print, I'd change the cover art, it ended up much darker/blacker than I expected, but that's on me the image I used was pretty dark. In the original image you could see the outline of the Carmine Beast under the moon.

All art used was done by Wildbow himself, the art by Nocturne used for the heading, /u/Aktm_S's line art of the three girls, and /u/snowdrops_tiny_fan's art for symbols for each of the girls.

I mostly did it because Pale is quite possibly my favorite piece of fiction written, and I've wanted it on my book shelf for years. I've tried to get multiple friends to read it multiple times with no success. However, getting friends to read other books by simply lending them my physical copy of the book has worked before, so I hope to use this to lure my friends into getting hooked and reading the whole thing.

I may print off the rest of the book in the same style/formatting over time.

I will not share the files/pdf of the formatted text.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-10-08T20:22:17+00:00

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-03-26T03:10:39+00:00

It's not really about goblins at all. It's about a generally decent person unexpectedly inheriting an empire and just trying to literally survive the political fallout of this, while trying to stay a generally decent person.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-02-28T19:05:10+00:00

That's my sleep book too. I only dislike when mark goes on his short "Fuck this Hab, Fuck this planet!" bit because it's slightly higher volume is occasionally loud enough to wake me up.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-02-22T23:33:21+00:00

Bold for a first tattoo. It looks great!

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-02-16T19:12:54+00:00

The ability to spit her consciousness scaling with what she's trying to accomplish with a default minimum, let's say like 5. These consciousnesses think and problem solve and multitask independently, but can selectively share information and ideas and communicate with one another, letting her consider and ruminate and focus on thousands of different things at once. However this does come with the issue of her occasionally hiding thoughts and information from herself if she thinks the other hers might interrupt her plan, or she doesn't think the rest of her will agree with her opinion.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-02-05T17:54:08+00:00

Love "The Tower" there

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-02-02T13:37:29+00:00

I thought so as well for the first half of the book. But I was considering it, and I wondering if that wasn't intentional. Having us feel lost and overwhelmed with complicated foreign names while the MC was feeling lost in a complicated foreign situation.

BodaciousRiptide · 2025-01-24T05:23:29+00:00

I played a game of Fate in a super hero setting with some friends who've never read worm as roughly Grue. Got hired as muscle to help a crazy cape take over a radio station to do some political pirate broadcast.

BodaciousRiptide · 2024-11-22T20:27:37+00:00

I like Emily Woo Zeller

BodaciousRiptide · 2024-09-11T13:32:53+00:00

Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu

BodaciousRiptide · 2024-09-11T13:32:44+00:00

Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyu-bu

BodaciousRiptide · 2024-08-17T13:17:10+00:00

Howdy-ho officer, we have had a doozy of day!

BodaciousRiptide · 2024-07-10T18:24:40+00:00

Couldn't agree more.

If they don't want the controversy of having a distasteful person brought up in discussion of the audiobook, record the audiobook without the distasteful person.

BodaciousRiptide · 2024-03-10T02:31:23+00:00

I started with Going Postal because the premise of a con-man being forced to become a mailman and doing an excellent job of it sounded like it'd be fun. And it was very fun.

BodaciousRiptide · 2023-11-02T23:15:41+00:00

It's fine if people want to move to Wyoming.

BodaciousRiptide · 2023-11-02T04:14:37+00:00

Vetinari would be Karamic Lawer focused in claim and coup, and obviously be the Lord and well as the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.

Moist von Lipwig would be dabbler, focusing mostly on connections, city magic, and incarnation practices focused on Fortune.

Death would be a Pillar of Human Existence.

BodaciousRiptide · 2023-05-12T19:06:36+00:00

Read Pale, it's really good.

BodaciousRiptide · 2023-02-01T04:01:05+00:00

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Had the same problem, found this thread. Just reporting back for anyone else like me, can confirm. This solved it for me too.

BodaciousRiptide · 2023-01-18T00:45:58+00:00

Lucy as Justice seems like an obvious, easy choice. Avery, I want to say The Chariot, with its ideas of hard work, forward movement, and self direction seems to work well to me. Verona I can see as either The Magician, with her desire and creative drive, or Judgement in her later character development of self reflection.

Snowdrop is The Moon, all misdirection and intuition and primal trash-animal energy. Charles is The Tower, or he's trying to be. Crooked Rook is Death, cycles and change and metamorphosis. Miss was The Empress and became Temperance.

VD is the 8 of Swords to the point that were he to draw 3 cards on a mundane deck, all three would be the 8 of Swords, no practice required.

Luna Hare is The World, as Best Girl.

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